The Krot facility is known as the largest underground structure in Sevastopol (and perhaps the entire Crimea) - the total area of workings reaches 30,000 square meters. In order to get around it all, it will take a lot of time, patience and luck - some areas are visited by workers, some have sensors installed, which are triggered by aggressive security ...
Thanks to local researchers, we had a chance to lightly touch this legendary structure - so to speak, lightly stroke the mole
I'll start with a historical background.
"Mole" was supposed to become an underground power plant in the rocky shore of the Sevastopol Bay. It was with this idea that its construction began in the 1930s.
It was planned to create two underground machine rooms with two turbine generators with a capacity of 25 megawatts. The fuel was coal, the mills for grinding and storage of which also had to be placed underground. Together with premises for service personnel and communications, all this was supposed to be an underground labyrinth of 4-5 floors, with a total area of about 32 thousand square meters.
Having survived the war, the facility was basically completed in the 1950s, further construction proceeded in slow stages until the 1980s, after which it was stopped and is still in a frozen state.
At the time when the Crimea was part of Ukraine, the most famous parts of this object were repeatedly used as film sets. The vast expanses of underground workings have not been fully explored by dungeon explorers to this day. Each new trip brings new results: previously unnoticed branches are discovered, blocked passages to unexplored areas, flooded galleries at a level lower than previously known ones.
It would take several sleepless nights to completely bypass everything known.
And since we were guests, we were shown a small part of the object - the most spectacular and the most explored.
For the most part, what you see can be described as concrete with concrete and cables. This object impresses not with its safety, but with its scale and history. These tunnels have seen a lot, preserved to this day in the form of endless turns, stairs, wells, old cables on rusty fasteners, dusty corridors, flooded inconspicuous manholes, monstrous cliffs and bulky metal structures.
Where there are no stairs, strange heaps of something metal are built - the pipes are obviously not from here, but you can go down and up them.
The pipes rest against a wooden platform resembling a stage. An old backing is visible on the wall. Even those researchers who spent many nights at this object and drew up a very detailed plan of the structure for themselves cannot boast that they know it from and to, completely, to every wall and every hole.
Further, the passage leads to high semi-arches, in which specific protective narrow doors more than three meters high should have been installed. In another place, such doors are installed and deafly closed, what is behind them - still remains a mystery.
The further path goes through a working, reminiscent of a quarry adit, but now the unfinished adit turns into a flat concrete tunnel with cables stretching along the walls
After the next turn, the tunnel dives down, the researchers are invited to go through several hundred steps before the environment changes.
The tunnels diverge and connect, turn after turn, and it's all down, down, down...
And finally, after a wide arch - variety
A lighted hall, in which someone obviously sometimes happens ... Iron locked doors, behind which endless shield
Returning to the unlit areas, we pass into another branch and stumble upon such a beautiful hermukha
Unfortunately, over the course of many years of history, it has lost its electric drives.
Behind it is a continuation of the cable tunnels that lead to the old transformer station. From the transformers, only insulators and spare parts scattered on the floor remained.
The substation has a luxurious staircase and exit through another beautiful door blocked from our side.
Continuing to follow the guides, we find ourselves in a flooded tunnel, which we don’t particularly want to go through because of unsuitable shoes. I linger for a few photos, this tunnel is very textured
Straight sections give way to sharp turns
On the floor, you can see significant volumes of tar that have flowed out of the cracks in the walls - this is the former waterproofing that has melted (someone told me that because of the fires that raged in the building during the war, while others say that then the ceiling would have been smoky)
But sooner or later, the tunnels are replaced by more spacious areas - here we see the transformer oil storage
There are rails on the floor, the dimensions of the tunnels are impressive, especially considering the depth at which all this is placed. Railroad tracks enter these bowels from portals at the foot of the mountain, and paths for trolleys diverge through transport tunnels. The idea of this structure is grandiose, although skeptics doubt the expediency of such labor, money and time costs for the construction of just a power plant
A giant transformer has been preserved in one of the halls. It was for their transportation that railway tracks were provided here.
Once again moving through the cable tunnels, we find ourselves in a truly huge hall
Despite its abandonment, being in it is somehow spectacled, it’s reluctant to set up a tripod (so that later, if something happens, run away with it), and the guides warn about the sensor somewhere on the far wall. Therefore, I get off with a flash and a bright flashlight mode
The scale can be estimated by taking the dimensions of a standard doorway as a starting point. Dark rectangles on a concrete wall are just such openings.
Without staying in the hall for a long time, we move on. Once upon a time it could have been light here, but the bulbs are unscrewed, and the line, most likely, is broken somewhere ...
But now we are approaching another illuminated section of the structure. Locals say that there is the greatest chance of running into workers.
The tunnels go far, far away and somewhere there, behind several gates, they come to the surface - or rather, to the foot of the mountain
Here you can also see thick protective doors. Some are tightly closed, and some are open, as if they were about to show a detour or a work shift.
It is not advised to go into the tunnels, so we go through the illuminated rooms back
And we find ourselves in another huge machine (?) room, under the ceiling of which a crane could walk. Unfortunately, this hall is also not completed, however, and is not as empty as the previous one examined.
But then one of the participants hears a click, and we leave the hall in the same way as we came into it. We don’t think for a long time whether to continue the inspection or go back - it’s almost morning on the clock, and we still have a long, long time to return to the surface ... We decide to finish - although we managed to see hardly a third of the structure that night.
Thank you for your attention:)
Historical reference:
Built in the thirties. The power plant in the rocky massif of the southern coast of the Sevastopol Bay (code name - the object "Mole") was supposed to consist of two turbogenerators with a capacity of 25 thousand kilowatts in two underground machine rooms, mills for grinding fuel - coal, bunkers for its storage, transformer and pumping stations, premises of service personnel.
Together, all this represented a 4-5-storey underground labyrinth with a total area
about 30 thousand square meters. The Krot facility was completed already in the 50s, and today
this is perhaps the largest underground structure in Sevastopol.(According to the newspaper Crimea Island )
You can slightly supplement the above data - the object was never completed. To date, part of the underground structures belongs to the Sevastopol CHPP, the rest, as elsewhere, is plundered by "metalworkers". The current authorities plan to build an underground nuclear power plant on the basis of the facility...
In the lower part of the mountain there are three portals (one is not completed) to which the railway tracks lead, on the top of the mountain there are a lot of concrete structures that were built in the 50s, these structures are covered with tar and, according to the plan of the engineers, should have been filled up flush with the ground . Two chimneys (ending at ground level) with a diameter of five meters each make a special impression. From the inside they are lined with refractory bricks, the upper span of pipes is 30-40 meters. At the top there is a concrete structure, inside which there is a vertical shaft 10-12 meters in diameter, you can go down the metal stairs almost to the very bottom (at the very top you need to be careful, because looters cut off one of the site's fastenings), the lower part of this shaft is not concreted , where the concrete ends, a tunnel departs to the side, which further bifurcates, one branch leads to a similar shaft, which does not go to the surface, but goes deeper by another 30 meters, side branches are visible in the middle part of the shaft and at the bottom level. Some of the stairs were cut off, incl. without equipment, further inspection is impossible ...
Above, at the level of the mountain, there are smaller concrete structures, going down into one of them, following the communications along the ventilation pipe, you can get into a circular structure, which is vertically divided into two parts, ladders lead down, then tunnels depart from them that communicate with each other at a lower level. To date, these passages are blocked (welded). One of the halves of this structure can be accessed from the surface through a tunnel, the exit from which is almost completely covered with earth (from the outside it looks like an ordinary pit).
Closer to the cliff there is a ventilation outlet - a house that looks like a country toilet (only made of concrete), a ladder bracket leads down (the descent is very dangerous, because from time to time the first six brackets are very loose and do not hold well), after the ladder bracket a small room from which a staircase leads down, at a depth of 40-50 meters the descent is blocked by a metal grate. Behind it, one can see a descent of another 20-30 meters and a horizontal tunnel going to the side.
Above, above the portals leading to the "Mole" object, there is another vertical shaft, but a lattice of metal pipes is welded on top, there are inscriptions "Property of the CHPP" and "Object under protection".
Without equipment, you will not be able to see anything else. I don’t recommend destroying and breaking anything - an alarm system is installed behind the barriers, by the way, it’s working.
The Mole object in Sevastopol is a place known to few. It brings to mind the military secrets and fantasy of the Strugatsky brothers. Organized excursions do not lead here, and not because the place is mysterious, but because it is unsafe - you can get lost or get injured by falling into some well.
Where is the object "Mole" on the map?
The map shows us it in the Balaklava municipal district of Sevastopol, on its westernmost side, in the Georgievskaya beam area, practically on the coast. To the south is the Church of Roman the Confessor.
Allied Dungeon
Few of the contemporaries visited the Krot facility. But they claim that it is a giant underground city at least 4-5 floors deep and a huge area.
The construction of this miracle began in the 30s. The problem with the provision of Crimea and electricity did not arise yesterday - the leadership of the USSR sought to solve it. "Mole" was supposed to become an underground power generator. It was supposed to be a power plant operating exclusively on coal. All production processes had to go underground - to protect against a very likely enemy attack, including fuel storage, grinding mills and staff quarters.
The station was supposed to operate in the state district power station mode, that is, to provide energy to the entire region of Sevastopol, the most valuable from the point of view of the country's defense. They placed it on the southern shore of the Sevastopol Bay. It was assumed that the station would consist of two units with a capacity of 25 thousand kW each. But before the outbreak of war, the station was not completed. During the defense of the city, defense enterprises were placed in its dungeons. Of these, Spetskombinat No. 1 is the most famous.
During the Second World War, the premises were significantly damaged, but after the end of the fighting and the restoration of the city (in the 50s), construction resumed. But it was never completed completely. There is no single version of what led to the curtailment of work.
Today, a large part of the territory of the catacombs belongs to the Sevastopol Thermal Power Plant, but a significant part remains abandoned, inaccessible and virtually unexplored. It is alleged that the basis of the complex's plans perished during the war.
Film set with a mystery
Due to the lack of reliable information, the "Mole" object in the Crimea has acquired a significant number of rumors. 
They say that even in its abandoned halls, motion sensors are installed that can cause various problems. They say that almost every year risky "stalkers" who climb here in search of adventure find new corridors and tiers.
When the official construction project was frozen, rumors spread that it was decided to build a nuclear power plant under the feet of the Sevastopol residents, in the catacombs of the "Mole". The Crimeans need not be afraid of this - a power plant is being built in Sevastopol, but not a nuclear one, but a thermal one, moreover, on the surface, in.
But the truth is that the abandoned labyrinth underground has caught the attention of filmmakers. It has been used as a set for filming several times. The most famous shots from the "Inhabited Island" by Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Risky excursion to the "Mole"
No one leads organized excursions to the Krot facility. Guests get there in three ways: by agreeing with the workers of the thermal power plant, getting acquainted with "stalkers" who are looking for metal or just adventure, or at their own peril and risk.
Above-ground structures of the object are ordinary brick and concrete "boxes" painted with graffiti of various artistic value. Even on the surface you need to walk carefully - there are dips and sheer wells. Under the ground is a complex system of tunnels and halls. Some of them are flooded. Lots of blocked openings.
A significant part of the equipment was dismantled at one time. 
Even more were plundered for scrap in the crisis of the 90s. However, in the abandoned corridors, you can still see electric cables, containers for transformer oil, and even railway tracks built to transport giant transformers.
In many places, metal sealing doors block the space, but their mechanisms do not work, and the doors are frozen in a half-open position. There is no need to be especially afraid of motion sensors - they are, but in that part of the structure that belongs to the CHP. After their activation, in the worst case, the uncle-guard will appear and send the uninvited guest out - this will be an administrative violation.
But you need to look carefully at your feet. Reviews of illegal guests confirm the original - there are a lot of pipes, shafts, cliffs. Great risk of an accident. You need to walk here with the help of insurance, which can be a rope.
Photos taken by lovers of interesting things prove that it will not be easy for an outsider to understand the purpose of abandoned underground halls and the remains of equipment in it. Therefore, the best way to get acquainted with the "Mole" is to contact the CHPP employees. It is not easy to negotiate with them, but it is possible. But such
The object "Mole" is a sad attraction in Sevastopol. It is a monument to unfinished business, ideas that have not been implemented. But the dungeons are still intact. Perhaps they will be able to shelter another enterprise, justifying their existence. In conclusion, we offer a video walk through the described place, enjoy watching!
Eternal hustle and bustle. Someone goes to Sevastopol, someone from Sevastopol. Trains several times a day scurry past the Georgievskaya ravine. The railroad track within the city is squeezed between rocks and fences around the enterprises. Almost entirely occupied by moored ships along the bays, the seashore, and railway tunnels cut into the rocks - that, perhaps, is all the entertainment for the gaze of passengers constantly hurrying somewhere. Many of them do not even know the names of the local neighborhoods, let alone their history.
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There is a plateau-like elevation within the city of Sevastopol - Kilenbalochny heights. The entire thickness of the rocks that make up the Kilenbalochny heights and surroundings, from the base to the top, is the remains of the former life of the ancient seabed - limestone, built by time. Kilenbalochnye heights closer to the North Bay cut deep ravines with rock outcrops at the edges. Among Sevastopol residents, such ravines, more like canyons, are usually called beams. Two of these gullies, leaving the mouth to the Northern Bay, are called Georgievskaya and Troitskaya.
Like a high-speed train rushing past their lower reaches not far from the shores of the Northern Bay, many historical events and eras passed over Georgievskaya and Troitskaya ravines.
Georgievskaya and Troitskaya beams... Don't you find something ecclesiastical in these names? It really is. In the lower reaches of the Georgievskaya and Troitskaya beams there were temples of the same name. In one of them (Georgievsky) in the Middle Ages there was a small cave monastery with a temple.
The sprawling and noisy Kherson (Chersonese), being the place of the earliest appearance of Christianity on the territory of the future Kievan Rus, was replete with many magnificent and simpler temples. However, the quiet confessors of Christianity, the monks, were attracted not by a crowded city, but by one of the first strongholds of Christians - the vast quarries at the mouth of the Black River. The quarries were also attracted by the fact that one of the first preachers, Pope Clement, was here. At the place where Clement preached, where after his prayer a source considered holy sprang up, a monastery arises, which still operates today: the Inkerman St. Clement Cave Monastery in the Monastery Rock. Not far from the large monastery of St. Clement, several small monasteries and sketes appear (the monastery in the Zagaitan rock, the monastery of St. Sophia in Inkerman). They build monasteries and a little further from the monastery of St. Clement. Such is the alleged monastery of St. George in the lower reaches of the beam mentioned above.
Monastery of St. George is unlucky. He, in the truest sense of the word, was destroyed by technological progress. Being in the rock, right next to the road leading to Sevastopol, the monastery attracted the attention of many researchers of the Crimean land. Proximity to the road and destroyed the monastery - first, a tunnel of the Lazarevsky water conduit was cut through the rock, and later it was completely cut off during the construction of the Lozovo - Sevastopol railway section. At the same time, only a few rear walls of the caves remained from the monastery. The same closeness to the researchers gave us the opportunity, thanks to their detailed descriptions and even drawings, to study this monastery now. The most complete description and watercolor drawing of the exterior and interior of the monastery can be found by the artist D.M. Strukov, the plan and a less detailed description by P.S. Pallas.
Cave monastery in the Georgievskaya beam near Sevastopol. Watercolor by D.M. Strukov
The description of D.M. Strukov, given in the “Ancient monuments of Christianity in Tauris”, 1876 edition, describing the monastery in detail, is worthy of publication:
“In the bay of Sevastopol, on the south side, four versts from the sea, on the corner of a cliff, there was a temple, remarkable for its entrance and some difference from those previously described. It was described by Dubois de Montperere and in " Notes of the Society of History and Antiquities". I have cleared it well and it was possible to get a clearer understanding of it.At the bottom of the rock there is a hollowed out entrance to a square-shaped room, 2 arshins wide and long. At the entrance, depressions are hollowed out along the outer side of the rock, serving as steps for climbing into another hole, located above the first. Having entered the hole, we find a room, 6 arsh wide. and a depth of 7 ars. A correctly carved staircase leads up from it, where there is a rather spacious room with two exits: one into a room convenient for serving a meal and the other into a temple with a width of an arch, where the altar is separated from the temple by a barrier, a height of 1 arch. 5 peaks, having one entrance in the middle. On the left in the altar there is a window opening, under the window on the north side, an altar is leaning against the barrier; the eastern part of the altar is semicircular in shape and in the wall there is a hollowed-out throne, which has a depression at the top, convenient for investing a part of St. relics, on the sides of the throne and below it is a seat for the clergy. There is a hollow above the throne in the wall, in it is depicted Jesus Christ on the throne, with a blessing right hand, in the left the closed Gospel and on his knees the likeness of a small quadrangular box (I have never seen such an image anywhere). The Mother of God is depicted on the right side, and St. John the Baptist is depicted on the left. Above the throne, a vault was carved, on which the Ascension of the State is depicted; along the arch over the vault is depicted in a circle waist-high St. torment. Lavr, on the sides of the arch to the north of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, on the south side the appearance of the angel St. Pachomius the Great; and closer to the window on the northern wall, the image is not complete, but only the lower part, reminiscent of St. John the Theologian and his disciple Prochorus. They say this temple was destroyed for the construction of the Railway.
Not all medieval cave structures in the Georgievskaya gully were destroyed during the construction of a railway line, but more on that later.
The train is getting closer and closer to Sevastopol, taking us away from Inkerman. The pipes of the state district power station will flash in the Sushilnaya beam, from it along the railway a heating main covered with insulation will stretch. The railroad is split in two. One, with old wooden sleepers, will go behind a high iron gate with a concrete fence, and the pipes of the heating main will also go there. The second track, the one along which the train travels, will lead along the fence to the remains of the above-mentioned St. top of the mountain - black cubes. Farther, along the paths, there are clematis thickets, rocks, darkened excavations of limestone from a quarry that once operated here, a stunted forest and small houses already in the neighboring (Troitskaya) beam.
It took only a few sentences to describe the section of the path, covering all the sights of interest to us, it would take even less time to drive all this way, and how many historical milestones and events took place here ...
Suitability for construction in the thickness of the mountains in the vicinity of the Georgievskaya beam was noticed not only by the monks of the medieval monastery of St. George. The convenience of access roads, the thickness of the limestone layer of the Kilenbalochny plateau (about 70 meters), the close proximity to the city - these are all the prerequisites for large-scale underground construction here. And this construction began.
In the 30s of the XX century, when another danger loomed over the city of Sevastopol, the main base of the Black Sea Fleet. Some of it had already been partially built underground by this time. So, in the adits of the Troitskaya beam, a huge for that time underground complex of the central torpedo arsenal of the fleet was built. Later, already during the war years, the notorious "Special Plant No. 1" was located there, producing ammunition to protect the city.
Not a single more or less serious underground enterprise will be able to work underground in the dark and without electricity for machine tools and mechanisms. To provide electricity to the invisible part of the city of Sevastopol, an underground building was erected, fully worthy of this part. This building was a four-level, equipped with two modern turbogenerators, huge machine rooms for them, all the infrastructure necessary for the operation, places for fuel storage, ways for its transportation, a thermal underground power plant. The complex of structures of this power plant was so large that it rightfully received the code name "Mole".
The hill is occupied by typical Sevastopol five-story buildings. Garage cooperative, ubiquitous low-rise buildings. This is how the “Mole” object looks like from its “smoothed” side. But, it is worth getting around this "gloss" and what comes out is what, according to the plan of the engineers, should have been buried under a layer of earth. Among the desert heights, slightly overgrown with undersized silvery sea buckthorn, various concrete structures covered with black tar are visible. Quiet horror seizes when you stand on the edge of a five-meter chimney lined with red refractory bricks, which goes into the abyss of the dungeon. Around - sagging depressions, reinforcement, fragments of concrete, black cubes of the Mole terminals. The terrible destruction of concrete structures is visible - these are traces of explosions and bombardments of the "Special Plant No. 1". And above all this is the blue azure of the sky, a wide panorama of the Sevastopol Bay. The heights on the edge of the cliff, lying directly above the railway track, were chosen by young people. They also own syringes, bottles and traces of "bulbulators" around. And also their own work of graffiti on the walls of the black terminals of the "Mole" object. Some of them are pure daub, but sometimes there are quite good, with their own meaning, work. Some large graffiti no longer have enough space on the walls of the black terminals of the Mole, and they are the second, and even the third artistic "layer".
Most of the underground entrances to the Krot facility are now inaccessible without special equipment. Yes, and this visit will be a violation of the law, because part of the "Mole" is currently operational and belongs to the Sevastopol CHPP. However, there is one entrance. It is a half-filled, unconcreted tunnel. The entrance to it is located in ... a failure on a rocky road that runs right along the top of an underground power plant. Still, if you want to explore the vast dungeons of the power plant without breaking the law, then why not do it without leaving the monitor (watch the video in the bonus part of the article)?
Even in an unfinished state (construction began in the mid-30s, continued in the 50s), the upper part of the underground power plant (the “Mole” object) is impressive. It should impress, because it is the largest underground structure within the city of Sevastopol. Until now, the ground part of the terminals is not completely “cast” from concrete, incompletely connected wire and undercooked fittings stick out from the walls. One gets the feeling that the builders left here just a few years ago, and more than half a century has passed.
The Krot facility is a typical example of large industrial construction. With such a large-scale construction, the probability of surviving any monument of antiquity approaches zero. However, by chance, there is such a monument here.
From the slope, not far from the entrance to the non-concrete part of the "Mole", a small coil of serpentine leads, leading to a huge concrete pipe, partially protruding from the ground and welded for safety with metal pipes. Below the pipe are concrete pillars with the remains of a metal mesh - chain-link. It seems that there seems to be nothing to guard here - below the steep slope there is only a cut rock and three railway portals in it (one is not completed). However, even such serious obstacles seemed insignificant during the period of serious protection of the object. Only with the collapse of the USSR, it became possible to approach the Krot object with less risk to health and freedom.
In 2008, N.V. Dneprovsky, when examining the remains of the Georgievsky Monastery, also examined the Georgievskaya Balka. What was the astonishment of the archaeologist when, at a height, five meters from a huge massif of concrete covering one of the portals of the underground power plant (the “Mole” facility), on a narrow rocky ledge, he discovered several rooms carved, apparently medieval, into the rock.
Plan of the caves in the Georgivskaya beam The entrances to the caves were very heavily overgrown with brambles and were practically invisible. Not a word was said about these artificial caves in any of the publications that previously described the Georgievskaya gully and the monastery. The temple, or similar premises among the artificial caves, was not found. Archaeologists so far only assume the connection of these premises with the monastery in the lower reaches of the Georgievskaya beam. So a small discovery was made where, to put it mildly, it was not expected.
Visiting a fragment of the Middle Ages in the midst of continuous industrial is not an activity for the faint of heart. From the remnants of the mesh fence, either a path or a ravine leads here. The free-flowing descent leads to a very steep limestone cliff smoothed over time (“ram's forehead”). And here is the edge of the cliff. Below, on the territory adjacent to the "Mole" facility, workers are bustling about. Where are these artificial caves? They're right under the cliff. In order to get to them, you need to show a little skill and elementary rock climbing. And now, a narrow platform, completely overgrown with prickly blackberries, is a shelf on the very edge of the cliff. And behind the back - artificial caves. Yes, you can’t imagine a better place for a monastery…
Underground power plant (object "Mole") and Georgievskaya beam on the Wikimapia satellite map:
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Panorama of the unfinished terminals of the underground power plant (object "Mole"):
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Well and terminal
Terminal
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destruction
Chimney
Mole and North Bay
Non-concrete part of "Mole"
Failure
Road to the terminal
Remains of the monastery
View from the caves
Facade of the caves
Georgievskaya beam
Portals of the Mole
From the height of the cliff near the preserved medieval artificial caves, the surroundings are perfectly surveyed. Below is a vertical cliff, below it is the territory adjacent to the huge underground power plant of Sevastopol (the “Mole” object). A little further on is the Georgievskaya beam itself, almost completely occupied by the buildings of the Mole. Behind the fenced area is the railway, behind the road is the Northern Bay with many moored ships. The opposite side of the beam is occupied by a small fire station (not surprisingly, there is a thermal power plant nearby) with a piece of a “historical” road that has preserved stone parapets and ruts in the rock, indicated on maps of the end of the century before last. Just a crazy combination of historical eras: standing in front of medieval caves, possibly belonging to the monastery of St. George, to see a piece of the road of the end of the century before last and realize that behind you is the largest underground object of the city of the last century. This is possible, probably, only in the Crimea, only in Sevastopol and only in Georgievskaya gully.
In 2010, the underground structures of the "Mole" were chosen by filmmakers. Director F. Bondarchuk filmed episodes for two parts of the film "Inhabited Island" here. Here are the two episodes. In the first part there is an episode when the main character MakSim with the guards leads a raid on geeks:
In the second part, in one of the episodes, there is a loading from a huge underground prison (yes, yes, this is the "Mole"!) On the trains of prisoners. Maksim meets his friends there:
The Krot facility is known as the largest underground structure in Sevastopol (and perhaps the entire Crimea) - the total area of workings reaches 30 thousand square meters. In order to get around it all, it will take a lot of time, patience and luck - some sections are visited by workers, some have sensors installed, which are triggered by aggressive guards ...
Thanks to local researchers, we had a chance to lightly touch this legendary structure, so to speak, lightly stroke the mole.
I'll start with a historical background.
"Mole" was supposed to become an underground power plant in the rocky shore of the Sevastopol Bay. It was with this idea that its construction began in the 1930s.
It was planned to create two underground machine rooms with two turbine generators with a capacity of 25 megawatts. The fuel was coal, the mills for grinding and storage of which also had to be placed underground. Together with premises for service personnel and communications, all this was supposed to be an underground labyrinth of 4-5 floors, with a total area of about 32 thousand square meters.
Having survived the war, the facility was basically completed in the 1950s, further construction proceeded in slow stages until the 1980s, after which it was stopped and is still in a frozen state.
At the time when the Crimea was part of Ukraine, the most famous parts of this object were repeatedly used as film sets. The vast expanses of underground workings have not been fully explored by dungeon explorers to this day. Each new trip brings new results: previously unnoticed branches are discovered, blocked passages to unexplored areas, flooded galleries at a level lower than previously known ones.
It would take several sleepless nights to completely bypass everything known. And since we were guests, we were shown a small part of the object - the most spectacular and the most explored.
For the most part, what you see can be described as concrete with concrete and cables. This object impresses not with its safety, but with its scale and history. These tunnels have seen a lot, preserved to this day in the form of endless turns, stairs, wells, old cables on rusty fasteners, dusty corridors, flooded inconspicuous manholes, monstrous cliffs and bulky metal structures.
Where there are no stairs, strange heaps of something metal are built - the pipes are clearly not from here, but you can go down and up them.
The pipes rest against a wooden platform resembling a stage. An old backing is visible on the wall. Even those researchers who spent many nights at this object and drew up a very detailed plan of the structure for themselves cannot boast that they know it from and to, completely, to every wall and every hole.
Further, the passage leads to high semi-arches, in which specific protective narrow doors more than three meters high should have been installed. In another place, such doors are installed and deafly closed, what is behind them - still remains a mystery.
The further path goes through a working, reminiscent of a quarry adit, but now the unfinished adit turns into a flat concrete tunnel with cables stretching along the walls.
After the next turn, the tunnel dives down, the researchers are invited to go through several hundred steps before the environment changes.
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